biped

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Recent Examples of biped This bird-like biped, like many of the robots in Star Wars, was a curious, plucky and courageous little character, communicating mainly in R2D2-like bleeps and bloops. New Atlas, 22 July 2024 All that really leaves are the special effects, which are made-for-Imax fine, though this modern rendition of Kong as a very human-ish biped has never looked quite right, a flaw that’s only multiplied. Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024 The footage shows a large, hairy biped walking across a hillside before squatting in the sagebrush. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2023 Now, of course, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, with its Atlas biped and Spot quadruped. IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for biped
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Noun
  • Deadly dog mauling Kansas City Police officers responded around 9:30 p.m. Nov. 2, 2024, to the Marlborough East neighborhood for a call about an animal bite incident.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Hantavirus strains in the U.S. are not transmissible from person to person but rather from animals to humans.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the game, players take on the role of planeswalkers, powerful spellcasters who summon creatures, cast spells and use artifacts to defeat their opponents.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The fifth movement is his funeral: a witches’ sabbath replete with monsters and creatures, with an undead version of his beloved as their ringleader.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And since Aibo’s debut, the company has sold more than 170,000 of the cute little quadrupeds—a huge number considering their price of several thousand dollars each.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
  • This paper contributes to quantifying the notion of robotic fitness by developing a set of necessary conditions that determine whether a small quadruped has the ability to open a class of doors or climb a class of stairs using only quasi-static maneuvers.
    Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017

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“Biped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biped. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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